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Police Notify Georgia Mom of Her Son`s Death Through Facebook

Salem-News.com

“I’m like, OK. I’m thinking it’s just fake,” - Anna Lamb-Creasey

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Anna Lamb-Creasey had no idea what happened to her son, Ricky Lamb, who had been missing since January 25th. She contacted hospitals and police departments, all to no avail, or at least that’s what she thought.

The grieving mother says Clayton County police in Georgia used a feature which she wasn’t aware of to inform her of her son’s death.

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The federal government is believed to be days away from awarding 15 times more in federal loan guarantees to the controversial Vogtle reactors in Georgia than it did to the failed Solyndra enterprise.

Experts will warn that the Vogtle reactor project is already racking up major cost overruns, with additional slowdowns expected to continue plaguing the project.

Jim Crow and Troy Davis

Tim King Salem-News.com

Georgia, a traditionally racist U.S. state that carried the emblem of the slave-owning Confederacy on its flag until 2001, kills a man whose conviction had big question marks, but he was Black and now Troy Davis is dead.

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We reported earlier this evening that the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia was to be temporarily delayed, just five minutes before being killed by state officials.

Now we know that officials in Georgia went ahead anyway, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a last minute stay of execution.

Troy Davis Execution Delayed - Then Carried Out

Salem-News.com

The state of Georgia killed Troy Davis.

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Officials have delayed the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia after intense public pressure. He was within five minutes of losing his life. It is only a temporary reprieve, but that does not necessarily diminish the impact.

Davis, charged and convicted for the 1989 shooting death of a police officer, he has maintained his innocence for 21 years. Supporters of Davis are widespread and watching the developments closely.

The Worst Kind of Injustice

Edward Dubose Special to Salem-News.com

Chatham County District Attorney Larry Chisolm is the man who requested the death warrant against Troy Davis.

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In moments of immense sadness, moments that shake the foundation of our faith in the justice system and mankind, adequate words are scarce. Today, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles co-signed on the decision to execute Troy Davis.

Troy Davis: Calling for Clemency

Please keep Troy and his family in your thoughts and prayers as well as the family of Officer Mark MacPhail (the police officer whose murder Troy was convicted of).

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I am writing to you from Atlanta, from the mist of a full-out clemency campaign. Troy Davis (a man on Georgia's death row despite a compelling case of innocence) is slated to be executed on Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. His clemency hearing in front of the Georgia Board of Pardons & Parole is on Monday.

Troy Davis: Death Row Inmate, Too Much Doubt

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Troy Davis was convicted of murdering a Georgia police officer in 1991. Nearly two decades later, Davis remains on death row — even though the case against him has fallen apart.

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The case against him consisted entirely of witness testimony which contained inconsistencies even at the time of the trial. Since then, all but two of the state's non-police witnesses from the trial have recanted or contradicted their testimony.

Many of these witnesses have stated in sworn affidavits that they were pressured or coerced by police into testifying or signing statements against Troy Davis.